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p56 <br /> PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT <br /> ORDINANCE: ZONING ORDINANCE <br /> REFERENCE: ARTICLE VI SECTION 6 .2.3 FLAG LOTS <br /> ORIGIN OF AMENDMENT: ,_.x Staff Planning Board <br /> BOCC Public <br /> Other: <br /> ' STAFF PRIORITY RECOMMENDATION: High Middlex,_Low <br /> Comment: <br /> EXPECTED PUBLIC HEARING DATE: May 23, 1988 <br /> PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT: To add a new section addressing flag <br /> lots. Flag lots are Irregularly <br /> • shaped lots where the buildable area <br /> of the lot is connected to the street <br /> by a smaller narrower portion of the <br /> lot. This narrower portion extends as <br /> an arm of the lot to the street, thus <br /> the name "flag lot" . This proposed . <br /> amendment will correspond and refer to . <br /> the Orange County Subdivision Regula-- <br /> * ions to identify various p.Iaces and <br /> types of flag lots that will be <br /> allowed. <br /> • <br /> IMPACTS/ ISSUES: The Zoning Ordinance establishes minimum lot <br /> width/frontage requirements In zoned town- <br /> ships which now prevent flag lots. The <br /> proposed guidelines or standards will <br /> accommodate flag lots in certain situations <br /> where topography, soil conditions, lot <br /> configuration or access impose hardships in <br /> providing suitable building sites. <br /> - EXISTING ORDINANCE PROVISIONS: <br /> None. F1ag lots are not addressed In the <br /> Zoning Ordinance. <br /> PROPOSED ORDINANCE PROVISIONS: <br /> 5.2.3 FIN, lots. <br /> Flag lots as defined In Article 22 of this <br /> ordinance are accommodated for as provided <br /> in Section IV-B-S-d of the Orange County <br /> Subdivision Regulations, <br />